Francesco Puccinotti (8 August 1794 – 8 October 1872 Chambers's Encyclopaedia, 1891
Volume VIII
) was an Italian pathologist. Puccinotti was born in

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and started his career as the main doctor in Recanati but moved on to Macerata where he became the director of the civil hospital. He went on to teach the history of

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at the universities of

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and

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. He was briefly named to the

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after the '' Risorgimento''. Puccinotti wrote an influential history of – his ''"Storia delle Medicina"'' (''History of Medicine'') – and ''"Patologia induttiva preposta a nuovo organo della scienza medica"'', an early book on the significance of pathology to medicine. He also did some of the early research into bioelectricity in warm-blooded animals. Puccinotti died in Florence and was buried in the Basilica of Santa Croce.

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External links

Some places and memories of Francesco Puccinotti
*Full text scans at Google Books
Storia della medicina, Volume 2, Part 2
(1855)

Additional sources

*W.F.Bynum and Helen Bynum, ''Dictionary of medical biography'', Greenwood Press, Westport (CT) 2007, vol. 4, p. 1036. *Norma Olin Ireland, ''Index to Scientists of the World from Ancient to Modern Times''. Boston: F.W. Faxon Co., 1962. 1794 births 1872 deaths Italian pathologists Italian medical historians Members of the Senate of the Kingdom of Italy {{italy-med-bio-stub